Proposed restaurant aims to train homeless, create jobs

1:00 AM,
May 2, 2013

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A restaurant will soon bring the homeless and hospitality training to downtown Tallahassee.

Backers behind the Renaissance Community Center and the West Gate Project, a west-side housing community under construction for the homeless, are revving up efforts to create 100 jobs that now include a training restaurant.

Twenty homeless men and women will be employed and trained in shift work, serving, dish washing, cooking, prep work and more, said RCC Director Chuck White. A location hasn't been pinned down yet, but the plan is to build an eatery by the fall. ...